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I am a 3rd year beekeeper from GA (USA).  I have currently have 4 hives of pure Russian bees, and plan on expanding over the next couple of years to around 15-20 hives.  I find the info on here to be relevant, decipherable, and helpful to me about 10% of the time.  Probably 40% of the stuff I see on here is academically meritorious, but way over my level of expertise.  The other 50%... not so useful.  I keep stumbling across posts that falls in the first 10%, so I keep on reading. 

Arthur in middle GA (USA)
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Charla Hinkle writes:

My name is Charla and I am a 3rd year beek.  I learn more from bee-l than I gather from the forums.  I lurk because I really am not learned enough in the vast majority of topics to contribute.   With each post I refine my knowledge.

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